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In the wake of multiple high profile violent events, the pressure is on to enforce tighter gun control. In the wake of such grief, that the call would go out for excessive policies was almost inevitable. Many have seized on this as an excuse to caricature those that are anti-gun as being people out of [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Politics · Tagged Australia, Britain, bullets, Constitution, firearms, Great Britain, gun ban, gun control, gun crime, gun regulation, mass shootings, second amendment
Ancient codes, or sets of laws, have been written down since around 2000 BC. Many of these laws were harsh and would be seen as barbaric compared to our current laws, but many of them were actually just as compassionate and fair, and sometimes moreso, than the laws we have now. 10. Animal Rights The [...]
Posted by Dylan Moore on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged ancient law, animal rights, Australia, brehan law, catholic church, Catholic Papal Bulls, Dylan Moore, Employment, Ethics, Europe, Hammurabi, incest, Labor, Law, Liberty, minimum wage, monarchy, mosaic code, Pope Paul III, Racism, Sicut Judaeis, Slavery, Sublimus Dei, The Code Of Hammurabi, United States, working off debt
There are many folk and punk bands that, despite having no or few Irish-born members, draw upon Irish influences for their inspiration and musical style. From established bands like The Pogues to lesser known groups like the Brick Top Blaggers, here are some examples of Celtic-inspired musicians you should check out if you like Irish [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Entertainment, Music · Tagged Australia, Black 47, Boston, canada, Celtic music, Celtic punk, Celtic rock, Dave King, Dropkick Murphys, Dublin, Dublin Square, Europe, Flogging Molly, Folk music of Ireland, Folk punk, Folk rock, Going Out In Style, Great Big Sea, Horslips, Ireland, irish culture, Larry Kirwan, London, Martin Scorsese, Massachusetts, Melbourne, Music, Mutiny, natural disaster, Phil Chevron, punk, Sex Pistols, Shane MacGowan, Steve Almond, The Departed, The Dubliners, The Pogues, United Kingdom, United States
If you grew up American, like me, then your typical idea of “Tropical Fruit” was bananas and the occasional kiwi. When I was a kid, Pineapples were something you rarely saw in a grocery store and mangos were something mentioned in movies or songs and I just assumed they didn’t exist for real and I [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Australia, Banana, cillian murphy, Don Ho, Durian, Flora of Indonesia, food, Fruit, Indonesia, Israel, Medicinal plants, Mexico, neighborhood food dispensaries, New Zealand, Passiflora edulis, Passion flower, Pear, Pitaya, Plant morphology, public transportation, Richard Sterling, Singapore, slough, Sugar-apple, Tropical agriculture
When most people find out what bioluminescence is, the first thing they associate it with is firefly butts, but the world has way more interesting life with built-in flashlights than beetles that use it to get nookie. And while we may not have glowing redwoods like Pandora, we do have the following. 10. Bioluminescent Fungus If [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Nature, Science · Tagged America, Auckland, Australia, beetles, Bioluminescence, Christmas, Dumb & Dumber, flies, Glowworm, Jim Carrey, Mecca, New Zealand, paint, Thailand, Yi script, youtube, YouTube Inc
Ah, nothing like a nice recall of millions of toys to completely wreck your corporate reputation. Parents tend to not appreciate when you endanger the lives of their special little snowflakes, you know! And then they tell 20 of their friends how bad your company sucks. Below are the 10 worst toy recalls of recent [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Games · Tagged Australia, barbie, Burger King, Burger King B.V., burns, Childhood, china, comas, Consumer Reports, dangerous lead paint, deadly and illegal lead paint, Easy-Bake Oven, Easy-Bake ovens, eBay, eBay Inc, Entertainment, face lacerations, Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price Inc, Fisher-Price infant toy, Hasbro, human behavior, Inc., infant toy recall involving lead paint, injuries, injury, lead poisoning, Mattel, public relations, seizures, similar products, Sky Dancer, Surgery, teeth lacerations, temporary blindness, toy, Toy safety, toys, United Kingdom, United States, US Consumer Product Safety Commission, USD, Yo-yo
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern science. Although coroners often develop plausible theories as to how and why these deaths occur, many of these inexplicable fatalities eventually end up with every possible explanation debunked. That being said, there are some features that nearly every case has in common. [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History · Tagged Agnes Phillips, Allen M Small, Allen Small, Andrew Handley, Anomalous phenomena, anthropologist, Australia, Ballybane, chair, Ciaran Mcloughlin, Combustion, death, facebook, Facebook Inc, Fire, Florida, Florida,United States, forensics technology, George Mott, Helen Conway, Henry Thomas, Human Interest, Ireland, Jackie Park, John Irving Bentley, Mary Hardy Reeser, Mary Reeser, Michael Faherty, New York, Olga Stephens, paranormal, police officer, REpublic of Ireland, South Carolina, spontaneous human combustion, Sydney, The Entrancing Flame, Wick effect
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide: According to a 2011 World Health Organization study, 1 in 9 people are obese and the trend is ever-expanding. Despite a myriad of concomitant health concerns, excessive fatness continues to be embraced by many countries as a sign of health, wealth and happiness. The following list explores the top [...]
Posted by Suzy Duvall on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food · Tagged Adipose tissue, Afghanistan, Australia, Bariatrics, Body shape, Cardiovascular disease, female obesity, feminine obesity, Fiji, Health, illness, island of Tonga, Jamaica, Kuwait, Mauritania, Medical education, Medicine, Metabolic disorders, Nauru, New Zealand, nutrition, Obesity, Overweight, South Africa, South Pacific, South Pacific island, Tahiti, Tonga, World Health Organization
Everybody is a fan of something but some just take it further than others. Here are the top ten fans who are simply crazy for their idols … 10. Chris Crocker After Britney Spears‘s life spiraled out of control, possibly her biggest fan, Chris Crocker took to You Tube to air his views. Simply titled [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Entertainment · Tagged America, Australia, baseball, boston red sox, Britney Alone, britney spears, California, Chris Crocker, David Ginola, Draco Malfoy, Greater London, Harry Potter, Ivonne Hernandez, judge, London, Major League Baseball, Matthew Beaudoin, Melbourne, Miley Cyrus, new york yankees, Red Sox, San Diego, Show, Showa Denko K.K., Tom Felton, Twilightsucks.com, United Kingdom, United States, Victoria, Yankees–Red Sox rivalry
Everybody likes a good teen comedy, but we can only talk about how awesome The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are so many times before the Internet is destroyed in a flood of redundancy. So we’ve assembled a list of 10 pretty good teen comedies that may have slipped under your radar, unless [...]
Posted by Mark Hill on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Australia, Breakfast Club, charlie sheen, corey haim, election, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flirting, Get Ral, Get Real, Gregorys Girl, Jay Baruchel, Jena Malone, Leon Trotsky, Lindsay Lohan, Lucas, macaulay culkin, Matthew Broderick, McAllister, Mean Girls, Michael Cera, Naomi Watts, Nicolas Sparks, Nicole Kidman, Paramount films, presidential elections, Reese Witherspoon, Richard Linklater, Saved, subUrbia, Teen films, Thandie Newton, The Breakfast Club, The Last American Virgin, The Trotsky, Uganda, Winona Ryder, Youth in Revolt